. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. at Athens. The date of the erection of one of the temples of Diana, at Ephesus, was asremote as that of the temple of Jupiter. If Livy had sufficiently our confidence, and weconcede that other writers corroborate his statement (lib. i. c. 45.), its date is as ancient asthe time when Serviiis TuUius was king of Rome. Great, however, as were the workswhich the Grecians executed, the mechanical powers were, if one may judge from Thucy-dides (lib. iv.),
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. at Athens. The date of the erection of one of the temples of Diana, at Ephesus, was asremote as that of the temple of Jupiter. If Livy had sufficiently our confidence, and weconcede that other writers corroborate his statement (lib. i. c. 45.), its date is as ancient asthe time when Serviiis TuUius was king of Rome. Great, however, as were the workswhich the Grecians executed, the mechanical powers were, if one may judge from Thucy-dides (lib. iv.), not then compendiously applied for raising weights. 142. The origin of the oruei is a (luestion not easily disposed of. IVIany provincojof Greece bore the name of Doria ; but a name is often the least satisfactory mode of ac-counting for the birth of the thing which bears it. We have already attempted to accountfor the parts of this order by a reference to its supposed connection with the hut. Jhewriter, in the Encychpedie MetJioilique, truly says that if the Doric had an invetitor, thatinventor was a people whose wants were, for a l
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